Song as an indicator of male parental effort in the sedge warbler

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1441, 2000, Pages 321-326

  Buchanan, Katherine L ^a   Catchpole, Clive K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acrocephalus; Parental effort; Sexual selection; Song

Indexed keywords

PARENTAL CARE; PASSERINE; SONG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHICKEN; FEMALE; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SINGING;

ACROCEPHALUS; ACROCEPHALUS SCHOENOBAENUS; ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0034701087     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1003     Document Type: Article

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